Leslie Swartz

Len Hansen

John Claassens

This publication fills a unique gap in the theological and religious engagement with the issue of human disability in South Africa. Combining the contributions of scholars, practitioners and people living with disabilities, it stands out for the way in which it promotes an interdisciplinary debate on disability and human dignity from a theological point of departure and interest. The end result is a collective effort with a critical approach to the role of religion (and the Christian faith tradition in particular) in the social and life worlds of people living with disabilities. A forceful argument is thus constructed about ways in which religion and the Christian faith tradition should change their own discourses, practices and ideological presuppositions regarding the issue of human disability. - Cobus van Wyngaard, Department of Philosophy, Practical and Systematic Theology, University of South Africa

Conversations on human dignity, theology and disability

Searching for Dignity

Robert Vosloo

“Look towards the future not as a disaster but as a challenge, not as a problem, but as an opportunity ... we have a common future: live, work, build together.” – Beyers Naudé A Future Beyond Apartheid

Engaging the Witness of Beyers Naudé

Oom Bey for the Future

Elna Mouton

Gertrude Kapuma

Thomas Togom

By addressing gender equality as a fundamental expression of human dignity and justice on our continent, this collage of ? essays [by 14 women and 6 men], is meant to serve as a concrete alternative to aspects of gender inequality ? Its format is particularly devised for use in the classroom, and for critical-constructive group engagement. It is our sincere prayer that it will also be used in imaginative ways by clergy and in congregations as a necessary part of adult learning programmes.

African perspectives on gender equality

Living with Dignity

Paradoxes have become characteristic of the world we live in - poverty and privilege, empire and oppression, migration and enclaveseeking, war and peace, justice and injustice, reconciliation and revenge. During the 2016 Societas Homiletica annual conference held in South Africa, these paradoxes served as a rediscovery of the calling of preachers to deliver the promise that lies within life's contradictions. A divine promise brought forth by the grace of God and the gospel of Christ - embodied in and through us by the Spirit of Christ. This promise may take many forms and calls for discernment and often interrupts the status quos in surprising, shocking ways. It is a promise that interrupts, in order to comfort.

Preaching Promise withing the Paradoxes of Life

Pieter Coertzen

M Christiaan Green

In our time the study of law and religion is emerging as a wide-ranging and vital academic discipline, with increasingly urgent implications for society at large. Lying at the intersection of a variety of other disciplines ? law, theology, religious studies, political science, sociology and anthropology, to name only the most obvious ? the field of law and religion is generating a burgeoning volume of interdisciplinary and trans-disciplinary research and study. The current volume is proof of this. The discussion of the relationship between law and religion, as seen from a variety of perspectives in Africa, underscores the critical importance of the issues involved in the everyday life of all citizens. It is accordingly vital for governments to take note of the scholarly results that are produced. We hope that this volume will contribute to this aim.

The quest for the common good in pluralistic societies

Law and Religion in Africa

Christo Thesnaar

This publication takes one back to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s (TRC) Faith Communities’ Hearings in 1997 and the re-enactment of those hearings in 2014. Some communities revisit their support of those in power and their change of heart. Others revisit their struggle against the regime and its ideology. All also revisit promises made in 1997 to work together - individually and collectively - toward a new society post 1994. After twenty years, the same faith communities (and some additional ones) and some prominent South Africans who played leading roles in the run-up to and during the hearings ask what faith communities promised at the time and whether this has been achieved by 2014. Over two days, together with local and international observers, they again face the past, but also the unfinished business in the present and future of a just, reconciled and transformed South Africa so clearly envisioned by the TRC, in 1997.

Faith Communities and Reconciliation in a Post TRC Context

Unfinished Business

Allan  Boesak

In the course of three years, the Globalisation Project has gathered experts from a variety of disciplines to reflect together on globalisation, its origins, its manifestations and consequences, particularly for the Christian religion and for Christian churches today. This second volume on this theme in the Beyers Naud‚ Series, also represents a selection of papers that were presented at consultations of the Joint Project, in this case during those held at Stellenbosch and Emden, Germany, in 2009.

Global Crisis, Global Challenge, Global Faith ? An Ongoing Response to the Accra Confession

Globalisation Volume 2

Murray Coetzee

ÿVreesloos gehoorsaam verwoord ?n goue draad wat deur Naud‚ se hele loopbaan vleg en ook neerslag vind in sy preke, waarin hy dikwels sy gehoor oproep om ?nie te vrees nie?. Reeds in sy eerste preek (?n Adventspreek in Desember 1939) neem hy as teksvers Lukas 2:10, waar ons die woorde van die engel lees: ?Moenie vrees nie, want kyk, ek bring julle ?n goeie tyding van groot blydskap wat vir die hele volk sal wees.? En in 1960, ?n waterskeidingsjaar in Naud‚ se lewe, die jaar van die sluipmoordaanslag op doktor Verwoerd, die Cottesloe-beraad en die gewelddadige en noodlottige Sharpevilleopstand teen die gehate paswette, sluit hy ?n preek oor die tema ?Gehoorsaam ? Aan wie?? met die volgende persoonlike getuienis af: ?[E]k het ?n vader gehad wat ons as sy kinders geleer het dat die mens sy grootste gehoorsaamheid altyd aan God verskuldig is: ?n gehoorsaamheid wat getuig moet word aan Sy Woord. ?Wie Gods Woord gehoorsaam, hoef niks te vrees nie? ?.

Len Hansen

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